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The Battle: the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government

October 14, 2010    ( 230 views)
America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays--rather it is a war against the creeping changes which threaten our culture of free enterprise. Free enterprise embodies the values that define us as a nation: individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. It is the source of our past success and the promise of a better future. But the recent economic crisis has distorted our values and given the small minority who opposed free enterprise a pretext for making sweeping European-style social change. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of twentieth-century socialism and the predations of America's own Great Society welfare-state

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Upcoming Lectures

GO Serve Women, GO Save Lives, GO Share Jesus: A Paradigm Shift in the Fight to End Abortion

May 29, 2013 • Topic: Human Life and Bioethics
Thanks to the wonders of ultrasound technology, women considering abortion have the opportunity to see their child in the womb and the power of this visual tool forms a bond with their child that often changes hearts to choose life over death. (More Details)

An Unlikely Convert: A Former Lesbian Professor's Journey to Faith

June 12, 2013 • Topic: Human Sexuality
Come join FRC to hear about one woman's unlikely journey to faith in Christ and find ways to graciously discuss some of the toughest questions on sexuality with your friends, neighbors and family members. (More Details)

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